The lines of cars stretched for blocks, people waiting for food distribution. One man waited 2 hours to find the supply exhausted. In frustration he wondered how he would feed his family. Another older person spoke of her loneliness, day… Continue reading

As we try to make sense of our lives in the middle of this crisis, it is all complicated by the endless political posturing that goes on while people die, businesses close, and lives are being turned upside down. The… Continue reading

Since we are mandated to live at a ‘social distance’ I’m spending every evening at home.  On some of those long nights, I pulled out albums and boxes of old photographs. Last week I found grainy black and white pictures… Continue reading

Crying is common right now, isn’t it? There is death. How my heart cries for those who are burying the dead when even the  comforts of our rituals of loss are denied them. There is enormous and unsettling uncertainty. As… Continue reading

People with money in the stock market have experienced big losses in recent weeks, but the best investors are thinking long-term. I am far from being a financial wizard, but I understand that I cannot allow every downturn make me… Continue reading

Many of us are ready to get back to ‘normal,’ aren’t we?  Thousands took the streets in Michigan yesterday to express their desire to get the world moving again. The enforced isolation is not ‘natural’ causing us to feel disconnected.… Continue reading

Our world has been hit with a tsunami that brings sickness, death, loneliness, financial stress, and disruption of relationships. Who among us does not deal with waves of anxiety?  This flood of difficulties threatens to flatten the life we once… Continue reading

Yesterday I was only up and about for a couple of hours before I realized that I was facing a real choice. It was a gray stormy day outside and threatened to turn into one inside of my head as… Continue reading

Here in New Jersey this Monday morning dawned with pouring rain and gray skies. What an apt metaphor for the emotional state of so many of us on the ‘day after.’  We celebrated, well, sort of given quarantine limitations. I… Continue reading

40 days past, we began our observance of Lent, the time of preparation. World events overwhelmed us and here we are at Maundy Thursday remembering our Savior’s death and, in a few days, His Resurrection. Let’s not allow the chaotic… Continue reading